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Below is Whisper #15 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I once had a dream in which an angel offered to take me back in time fifteen years and start…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #14 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Restraint is the opposite of overreaching. It’s about having the most power but not using it. Restraint is the essential…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #13 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Leaders often overextend themselves. Those with the most power frequently exercise it and go too far. This is overreaching, and…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #11 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. One dichotomy on the northern plains is the quiet battle for supremacy between the circles and the squares.The native tribes…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #10 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Division is a big business—perhaps the most powerful one on Earth. Gender, race, age, ethnicity, religion, political persuasions, and geography…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #9 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. As I leave South Dakota and the Black Hills traveling west toward the Bighorn Mountains, I inevitably come upon a…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #8 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Mitakuye Oyasin is a Lakota phrase which translates to mean “All things are one thing” or “We are all brothers.”…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #7 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Traditional Western thought often depicts humanity as nature’s detached and isolated master. From this perspective the natural world surrounds but…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #6 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I was walking alone in the wilderness one evening when the epiphany I had been seeking materialized. It appeared suddenly,…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #5 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. One of my dearest friends from Pine Ridge is Catherine Grey Day. She is a Dakota elder and a survivor…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #4 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. These words by philosopher Joseph Campbell reveal his understanding of the world’s mythologies and sacred stories as manifestations of the…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #3 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. It was the day before Halloween, and I found myself standing alone at the Wounded Knee Massacre site on the…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #2 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I remember pacing the quiet halls of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on an early Sunday morning as I waited for…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #1 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Crazy Horse was born in 1842 near the Black Hills. In the decades that marked his life steamboats would conquer…
READ ARTICLEThe following is the introduction to my third book, 48WHISPERS From Pine Ridge and the Northern Plains. Please enjoy. As a teenager our family took a vacation to the Grand Tetons. I was so enamored with the majestic grandeur of the West that I subsequently returned one college summer to work in Yellowstone National Park. I happily…
READ ARTICLEIn October of this year I had the honor of giving the keynote address at the LBM STRATEGIES conference in Denver. The 50-minute talk was video recorded, and I would like to share it with you. I hope you can find a quiet time over the holidays to relax, enjoy, watch, and reflect. What if…
READ ARTICLE“Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother, and are not all living things with feet or wings or roots their children?” —Black Elk “The Divine Matrix is the container that holds the universe, the bridge between all things, and the mirror that shows us what we have created.” —Gregg Braden The…
READ ARTICLE“To get people out of their misery, out of this genocide, that is the main reason, the motive and purpose of the military operation that we began in Donbas and Ukraine.” —Vladimir Putin Hancock Lumber has a long-standing customer from Pakistan. Each year we ship his company dozens of containers loaded with eastern white pine….
READ ARTICLE“Even the most basic outline of his life shows how great he was, because he remained himself from the moment of his birth to the moment he died; because [though] he may have surrendered, . . . he was never defeated in battle; because, although he was killed, even the Army admitted he was never…
READ ARTICLE“Man should not be in the service of society; society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that’s what is threatening the world at this minute.” —Joseph Campbell The first mission of any company should be to make work meaningful, rewarding,…
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